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From: Daejun Park
Date: Tue Nov 03 2020 - 01:30:26 EST



In the fs-based mode of F2FS, the mapping of hot/warm node to
WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET should be changed to WRITE_LIFE_SHORT.

As a result of analyzing the write pattern of f2fs using real workload,
hot/warm nodes have high update ratio close to hot data.[*]
However, F2FS passes write hints for hot/warm nodes as WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET.

Furthermore, WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET is a default value of write hint when it is
not provided from the file system.
In storage, write_hint is used to distinguish streams (e.g. NVMe).
So, the hot/warm node of F2FS is not distinguished from other write_hints,
which can make the wrong stream seperation.

* Liang, Yu, et al. "An empirical study of F2FS on mobile devices." 2017
IEEE 23rd International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing
Systems and Applications (RTCSA).

Signed-off-by: Daejun Park <daejun7.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/segment.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 1596502f7375..7b42bb10c6c3 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -3208,7 +3208,7 @@ enum rw_hint f2fs_io_type_to_rw_hint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
return WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME;
} else if (type == NODE) {
if (temp == WARM || temp == HOT)
- return WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET;
+ return WRITE_LIFE_SHORT;
else if (temp == COLD)
return WRITE_LIFE_NONE;
} else if (type == META) {
--
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